.Today I find myself at a crossroads: the work on Genieting VII for piano is intersected by starting the work on ›Distant Voices‹ (working title) for Spectra Ensemble.In several ways, it is a crossroads: Genieting VII is based on piano sonata DV 894 by Schubert (in particular in the very slow performance of Sviatoslav Richter) and ›Distant Voices‹ on the Mass ›Maria Zart‹ by Obrecht.In Genieting VII I approach Schubert’s music via a spectrum of the tone G. In this spectrality I want to make a kind of imprint of the first movement of the sonata, to which I then also fantasize musically.In ›Distant Voices‹ I adopt the working method of Obrecht (and many of his contemporaries) to use one or more chansons (popular songs) as a starting point for the cantus firmus of the Mass. For this purpose I choose some guitar riffs from pop music. I also want to try to base the structure of the composition on the numerical structure that underlies Obrecht’s Mass ›Maria Zart‹ as described by M. van Crevel in his edition of the work.